VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Toronto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Los AngelesToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 14 points.14
Los AngelesToronto
Score2943
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km058
Swim season months01
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesToronto
Score6682
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3372,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
Los AngelesToronto
Score4943
Museums within 10 km6935
Museums within 2 km of centre2325
Share of museums within 2 km %3371
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
Los AngelesToronto
Score5469
Drinking venues within 4 km6601,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6564
Nightclubs within 4 km64103
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 36 points.36
Los AngelesToronto
Score6226
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 24 points.24
Los AngelesToronto
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km1123
Park area within 2 km20 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesToronto
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesToronto
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 32 points.32
Los AngelesToronto
Score8755
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm51 mm to 85 mm
Dry months80
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
4 h 50 m
€205-248
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 45 m
€166-318
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
4 h 35 m
€232-264
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
12 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesToronto
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation106 m76 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesToronto
City population3,898,7472,794,356
People per km²2,9944,434
Museums within 10 km3832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre46102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.